The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-04
rs QUIETLY BOOMING.
Nephi Marching Rapidly to
the Front.
THE WATER WORKS SYSTEM.
A Revolution In Gas MakinE-rhe
Buildings Being Ereeted-Other
Signs Of Progress.

Sephi is fast improving in appear
ance. In addition to the new buildings
being erected, men are at work bridg-
ing the streams that cross the principal
streets, and property owners in and
near the centre of town are leveling
sidewalks, improving fences, etc. Coal
is being used now in preference to
wood and the piles of cedar bark and
chips are fast disappearing. The barrels
in front of each house which have
heretofore and are at present neces
slty to the household that clear water
might be had for culinary purposes will
soon be thing of the past. The mass
meeting mentioned in The HERALD last
week appointed the following named
gentleman as committee to
consider the matter of organizing a
stock company for the purpose of con-
Quoting the waters of certain springs
situated about three miles east of Nephi,
in the canyon, to the town for culinary
purposes: W. P. Read, Charles Foote,
George @. Whitmore, John Vickers. W.
A. U. Bryan, ]. D. Mynders and W. h.
Warner, with Alma Hague, probate
judge and cashier of the First National
Bank, to lend his assistance and inau-
ence. The gentlemen are all men
Of considerable business experience
and represent fairly the pincipal
monIyed men OF Nephi. The majority
are young men, and they are all ener
getic, as is proven by the work they
have done. The water has been ana
lyzed and found to be as good as the
Territory produces; the grounds have
been examined and plans decided upon,
and the committee assure US that the
expense will not be nearly as great as was
at first expected. A gentleman from st.
Louis, who Is now in the Territory, and
whose business is to contract and furn-
ish material for water systems in the
many towns, cities, ETC., of the west,
will be here this Sunday afternoon,
and give estimates as to cost of pipe
and the constructing of thoroughly
good waterworks in HephI. 1t is
more than probable that the water
will be brought from the canyon
this fall, and visitors will then get
time to study and realize the advantages
of Nephi and the prospects she has for
becoming one of the important cities of
the Territory.
Nephi is now a centre for the buying
and selling of woods, pelts,
hides, furs, etc., also wagons
and machinery, and within the
past month wholesale butcher
shop has been erected, and is flourish
ing, amazingly; meats have been sent
from here in all directions. Hephi is in
the centre of good field and plans are
nov being made for the establishment
of wholesale houses, the building now
bnafv koA brTf hn Al
& Sons, and owned by Messrs. Read
and Bryan, being the 6rst erected
for the purpose. This building
promises to be the largest and
most imposing and tastefuIly finished
house in the place and it Is in the hands
of a firm composed of and hiring the
most thoroughly accomplished mechan-
les. Another thing that We have to
boast of, ard that is having as perma
nent and practical inventive genius,
L. 8. Adams. He has just brought to
light something that is bound to benefit
the entire Territory, that is that it is
possible, and not only that, but posi-
tive fact, that gas can be produced from
our own mountain elements without
being compelled to send to other coun-
tries for material. And more, it can be
produced where the plant is erected far
cheaper than it is being produced in
this Territory. Gas for one large jet can
be produced for less money than
it costs to keep three ordinary
kerosene lamps burning. This is
bound to be big saying of money to
the Territory. Mr.. Adams is willing to
be Intercepted on the subject and is
backed by no small amount of capital.
SOME seven or eight hundred of
Nephi's citizens spent last Monday in
the canyon. A pleasant out was en-
ioyed, and although Deputy Dykes
made himself very prominent the fun
was not diminished.
NEPEI is up to the times and is quietly
booming.
II. BURTON is now superintendent of
the Nephi Coop, and that institution
is hourishing. Mr.. Burton for some
time past has been doing the work of
superintendent.